Category:Motets
Partially excerpted from the Wikipedia article on motets:
In Western music, motet is a word that is applied to a number of highly varied choral musical compositions. ... [T]he Renaissance motet is a short polyphonic musical setting in imitative counterpoint, for chorus, of a religious text not specifically connected to the liturgy of a given day, and therefore suitable for use in any service. The texts of antiphons were frequently used as motet texts. This is the sort of composition that is most familiarly named by the name of "motet," and the Renaissance period marked the flowering of the form. Renaissance motets were invariably in Latin. If the language of a polyphonic choral work was the vernacular, then the work was a Madrigal.
The name "motet" was preserved into Baroque music, especially in France, where the word was applied to petits motets, sacred choral compositions whose only accompaniment was a basso continuo; and grands motets, which included instruments up to and including a full orchestra. ... In Germany, too, pieces called motets were written in the new musical languages of the Baroque. Both Latin and German languages were used, and the Baroque motets of Germany tended to be longer compositions.
Except for the Mozart Ave verum corpus there were few motets written by 18th-century composers. Motet writing was revived by 19th-century composers, especially German and French composers. And in England, anthems (in English) and motets were written. The practice has continued to the present day by composers imitating the earlier forms and styles.
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- Magnificat, Op. 69, No. 3 (Felix Mendelssohn)
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- Manus tuae fecerunt me (Robert White)
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- Maria Magdalene (François Dulot)
- Maria Magdalene (Pierre de Manchicourt)
- Maria Magdalene (Severin Cornet)
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- Maria zart von edler Art (Johannes de Fossa)
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- Maria, mater gratiae (Carlo Gesualdo)
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- Mariam Matrem (Anonymous)
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- 2 Marianische Offertorien (Karl Kempter)
- Marianische Vesper (Robert Führer)
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- Mariengarten, S. 62 (Franz Liszt)
- 3 Marienlieder aus Op. 54 (Joseph Gregor Zangl)
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- Mein Kind, willst du meine Rede annehmen (Tobias Haak)
- Mein Odem ist schwach, Op. 110, No. 1 (Max Reger)
- Mein Sünd sind schwer und übergroß (Michael Hahn)
- Mein Zuversicht hab' ich gericht't (Sixt Dietrich)
- Meine Schwester, Liebe Braut (Melchior Franck)
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- Meine Seele harrt auf dich (Johann Heinrich Rolle)
- Meine seele ist betrübt bis an der Todt (Daniel Selich)
- Meine Seele ist stille (Jakob Heinrich Lützel)
- Meister, wir haben die ganze Nacht gearbeitet (Andreas Raselius)
- Meister, wir haben die ganze Nacht gearbeitet, SWV 317 (Heinrich Schütz)
- Meister, wir wissen, dass du wahrhaftig bist, SWV 414 (Heinrich Schütz)
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- Memento creatoris tui (Andreas Raselius)
- Memento Domine (William Byrd)
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- Memento Domine David (Jacob Meiland)
- Memento homo (William Byrd)
- Memento mei (Adrianus Petit Coclico)
- Memento nostri, Domine (Philipp Avenarius)
- Memento nostri, Domine (William Armiger)
- Memento peccati tui (Orlando di Lasso)
- Memento salutis auctor (Jacques Arcadelt)
- Memento salutis auctor (William Byrd)
- Memento verbi tui (Nobuaki Izawa)
- Memento verbi tui servo tuo (Jakob Reiner)
- Memento, salutis auctor (Thomas Crecquillon)
- Memor esto (Francesco de Layolle)
- Memor esto (Severin Cornet)